A photograph of Mrs. Wilma Folwell, librarian, and the student library assistants on the steps of Bailey School in 1954. Bailey School, built in 1929, is located in the Eastwood neighborhood of East Nashville. The student library assistants were...

An excerpt from a public meeting with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley conducted on April 5, 1968. Meeting held to discuss Vanderbilt student protest that took place on April 4. The main issue discussed was the calling of the National...

Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leaders Guy and Candie Carawan on 17 January 2003 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Candie and Guy Carawan discuss Candie's parents' reaction to her...

A photograph of student demonstrators being arrested and escorted into a paddy wagon after a nonviolent protest at the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Students continued demonstrations...

A photograph of student demonstrators, in front of the previously segregated Post House Restaurant located inside the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Led by Student Nonviolent...

A photograph of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Guy Carawan of the Highlander Folk School at a mass meeting at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, following the bombing of attorney Z. Alexander...

A photograph of lead defense attorneys for student demonstrators, Davidson County Courthouse, Nashville, Tennessee, March 2, 1960. Attorney Robert E. Lillard gestures in his defense of the students on trial for their part in the sit-in...

A photograph of student nurses at Nashville's General Hospital attending babies in the nursery. Student nurses were responsible for many duties including caring for newborns, surgical nursing, and working in the diet kitchen and sometimes even...

Historian Dr. Merle R. Eppse, pictured with a Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University Student Group in Mayor Ben West’s office at City Hall, Nashville, Tennessee, circa February 1954. Mayor West is pictured holding an ink pen and a...

A photograph of leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaving the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on May 23, 1967. They were attending a trial of a suit...

A photograph of Stokely Carmichael at the 1967 IMPACT Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 8, 1967. Carmichael's 1967 appearance at Vanderbilt University would be cited as "the cause of significant controversy throughout...

Schoolchildren participating in May Day events at Eakin Elementary School on May 9th, 1941. Eakin Elementary School, located at 2400 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, was completed as a new two-story structure in 1936. Its student body,...

Schoolchildren participating in May Day events at Eakin Elementary School on May 9th, 1941. Eakin Elementary School, located at 2400 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, was completed as a new two-story structure in 1936. Its student body,...

Schoolchildren participating in May Day events at Eakin Elementary School on May 9th, 1941. Eakin Elementary School, located at 2400 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, was completed as a new two-story structure in 1936. Its student body,...

A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), pictured the cast of a student play at Cockrill School. The young students are pictured in Dutch costumes. Forms part of the Nashville Times newspaper collection. 1 digital photo.

Schoolchildren participating in May Day events at Eakin Elementary School on May 9th, 1941. Eakin Elementary School, located at 2400 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, was completed as a new two-story structure in 1936. Its student body,...

Schoolchildren participating in May Day events at Eakin Elementary School on May 9th, 1941. Eakin Elementary School, located at 2400 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, was completed as a new two-story structure in 1936. Its student body,...

Schoolchildren participating in May Day events at Eakin Elementary School on May 9th, 1941. Eakin Elementary School, located at 2400 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, was completed as a new two-story structure in 1936. Its student body,...